November 12, 2007 (LPAC)—Remember Lyndon LaRouche's Nov. 10 warning, "Giuliani Was Set Up!" where LaRouche noted that someone "clean" could emerge as the Presidential candidate for the Republicans when Giuliani inevitably crashes? LaRouche suggested Bloomberg was a candidate waiting in the wings. Last week's issue of Newsweek ran a 7000-word puff piece extolling New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as literally the "man on horseback" (Bloomberg has a lifelong fascination with Paul Revere). "Bloomberg is a billionaire wildcard," says Newsweek," a centrist who has the means to make one of the most significant third-party bids for the White House in American history." While this article talks only about a "third party" bid, an eleventh hour Republican substitution is also possible.

Estimated to be worth $13 billion, Bloomberg would run a "billion-dollar campaign" if he decides to run, says his chief political advisor Kevin Sheekey. And Sheekey says Bloomberg would only do it, if he were convinced that he were likely to actually win, running against unpopular or discredited major-party candidates. "It's something you can do with resources," Sheekey says.

The man on horseback" has some other rather strange critters in his stable. Although Newsweek doesn't go into it, other media sources have reported the fact that then-Republican Bloomberg owed his 2001 election to the 59,000 votes he obtained on the ballot line of the Independence Party, the former New York State Reform Party of Ross Perot, which was taken over by wackos Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani. According to the New York Times and the Village Voice, Bloomberg then poured over $250,000 into the Fulani-Newman Independence Party during his 2005 campaign.